Entries for the ‘NetFlow’ Category

The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) is out and it paints quite the gloomy picture of the world we live in today where cyber security is concerned. With over 63,000 security incidents and 1,367 confirmed data breaches, the question is no longer if you get popped, but rather, when. According to the report, […]

Let’s say that you go to the same restaurant at least once a week for an entire year. The staff is always friendly, the menu always has something that sounds appealing, and the food is always good enough to keep you coming back for more. The only real drawback is that it usually takes a […]

Last year I gave a talk at a number of different conferences called “The Magic of Symbiotic Security: Creating an Ecosystem of Security Systems” in which I spoke about how if we can break our security tools out of their silos, then they become far more useful. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work […]

A couple of weeks back, HD Moore posted a blog entry entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play: Unplug, Don’t Play” supporting a Rapid7 Whitepaper in which he discusses the 81 million unique IP addresses that respond to UPnP discovery requests on the Internet and the 23 million fingerprints that match a version of […]